The last few days I’ve been playing with WP Rig as a way to speed up my WordPress development process and automatically optimize theme performance. This effort was partly on in part by Chris Weigman’s switch to Hujo.js for his blog and as well as my interest in static site generators.
WP Rig’s build process automates the more tedious tasks of WordPress development and lets focus on the layout and design elements. At time of this post I’ve published a near stock theme with only a related posts component added.
Although it’s nowhere near the speed of Chris’ site there is the benefit of comments if he chooses to leave one. 😛
My Private Notes plugin allows me self host my notes while hiding it from public view.
The Private Notes WordPress plugin is in active development, I’m providing it here for the public to hack, tweak and learn from… Use at your own risk.
Private Notes allows users create and store notes on their personal website.
How Private Notes works
The Plugin creates a Notes section within the dashboard where you can create and maintain your notes.
A Custom Post Type is created to hold your content.
These notes are visible when logged into your website while the content remains hidden from a public guest who could be viewing the page.
What users can see when they’re logged in.An example of what the public would see if they visit the post
Important
The post’s title, author, date and other data will remain visible to the public. Additionally any media files such as images, videos, audio, and documents will remain visible from their attachment pages. Private Notes does not secure any files attached to the post! It only hides the post’s content area.
After activating the private Private Notes plugin a notebook icon will appear in your admin menu under Posts. Simply Add New, type out some notes, add media, links, embeds or whatever you like. Then hit publish.
The Post Editor of a Note
Although self hosting notes in WordPress isn’t as convenient as a dedicated note taking app it does allows personal control and ownership of my thoughts.
